Arlene, Yes, the names are correctable, there is a little "box" on the upper right side of the page, where you can sumit corrections. My mother was entered by the census taker as a boy, just becasue her name was LaVerne, which is how a female spells it, where as he wrote it Lavern, which is a male spelling. Happy Searching >From: wimilwau-request@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: wimilwau@rootsweb.com >To: wimilwau@rootsweb.com >Subject: WIMILWAU Digest, Vol 2, Issue 38 >Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:01:43 -0700 > > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Ancestry (Arleen) > 2. Re: Ancestry (Lynne Ingalls) > 3. Re: Ancestry (Ellen- (Milwaukee)) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:59:36 -0600 >From: "Arleen" <as_esu@comcast.net> >Subject: [WIMILWAU] Ancestry >To: <wimilwau@rootsweb.com> >Message-ID: <003e01c74a18$90ab1470$6500a8c0@LouandArleen> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" > >HI >A while back I heard that Ancestry was having their indexes read and >recorded "off shore," hence the strange outcome of some names. Now I am >wondering if they are also going back and looking at the indexing that >was done on the censuses and redoing them.I know that a few years back I >found with no trouble the Borowicz family on the 1900 census. I have now >decided to go back and transcribe the data into my gen program. I used >the search (soundex) and still nothing came back. I had the Ed and Page >info so I looked for it that way. Yes I found them but wondered how they >were indexed. I had a real laugh at this one - Belmarez. Also the wifes >name is Julia and they have it listed as John. >Has anyone else found a change in the index? >Arleen > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.28/672 - Release Date: >2/6/2007 10:22 AM > > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:02:42 -0700 >From: "Lynne Ingalls" <lynne.ingalls@comcast.net> >Subject: Re: [WIMILWAU] Ancestry >To: <wimilwau@rootsweb.com> >Message-ID: <003701c74a21$62b73ae0$22cf5444@D1Z30G81> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Arlene - I found changes, too, but cannot remember which of my ancestor's >it was. I had to do the same thing you did, come at it from a different >direction (street by street). At least on FreeBMD you can contact the >website and tell them that a name is misspelled. Maybe Ancestry will offer >this service soon. > >-----Original Message----- >From: wimilwau-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:wimilwau-bounces@rootsweb.com] >On Behalf Of Arleen >Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:00 AM >To: wimilwau@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WIMILWAU] Ancestry > >HI >A while back I heard that Ancestry was having their indexes read and >recorded "off shore," hence the strange outcome of some names. Now I am >wondering if they are also going back and looking at the indexing that >was done on the censuses and redoing them.I know that a few years back I >found with no trouble the Borowicz family on the 1900 census. I have now >decided to go back and transcribe the data into my gen program. I used >the search (soundex) and still nothing came back. I had the Ed and Page >info so I looked for it that way. Yes I found them but wondered how they >were indexed. I had a real laugh at this one - Belmarez. Also the wifes >name is Julia and they have it listed as John. >Has anyone else found a change in the index? >Arleen > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.28/672 - Release Date: >2/6/2007 10:22 AM > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >WIMILWAU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes >in the subject and the body of the message > > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:12:24 -0600 >From: "Ellen- (Milwaukee)" <milwaukee@linkstothepast.com> >Subject: Re: [WIMILWAU] Ancestry >To: wimilwau@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <200702061312240531.0034D832@mail2.onyourmark.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >It does offer that service now. >There is a link where you can tell them of the error. They don't correct >it but do offer the alternate name in searches. I have made many >corrections that way. > >Ellen- >www.LinksToThePast.com > >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >On 2/6/2007 at 12:02 PM Lynne Ingalls wrote: > > >Arlene - I found changes, too, but cannot remember which of my >ancestor's > >it was. I had to do the same thing you did, come at it from a different > >direction (street by street). At least on FreeBMD you can contact the > >website and tell them that a name is misspelled. Maybe Ancestry will >offer > >this service soon. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: wimilwau-bounces@rootsweb.com >[mailto:wimilwau-bounces@rootsweb.com] > >On Behalf Of Arleen > >Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:00 AM > >To: wimilwau@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [WIMILWAU] Ancestry > > > >HI > >A while back I heard that Ancestry was having their indexes read and > >recorded "off shore," hence the strange outcome of some names. Now I am > >wondering if they are also going back and looking at the indexing that > >was done on the censuses and redoing them.I know that a few years back I > >found with no trouble the Borowicz family on the 1900 census. I have now > >decided to go back and transcribe the data into my gen program. I used > >the search (soundex) and still nothing came back. I had the Ed and Page > >info so I looked for it that way. Yes I found them but wondered how they > >were indexed. I had a real laugh at this one - Belmarez. Also the wifes > >name is Julia and they have it listed as John. > >Has anyone else found a change in the index? > >Arleen > > > > > >-- > >No virus found in this outgoing message. > >Checked by AVG Free Edition. > >Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.28/672 - Release Date: > >2/6/2007 10:22 AM > > > > > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >WIMILWAU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >quotes > >in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >WIMILWAU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > >------------------------------ > >To contact the WIMILWAU list administrator, send an email to >WIMILWAU-admin@rootsweb.com. > >To post a message to the WIMILWAU mailing list, send an email to >WIMILWAU@rootsweb.com. > >__________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >WIMILWAU-request@rootsweb.com >with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body >of the >email with no additional text. > > >End of WIMILWAU Digest, Vol 2, Issue 38 >*************************************** _________________________________________________________________ Talk now to your Hotmail contacts with Windows Live Messenger. http://get.live.com/messenger/overview